Azure Advisor: How to Improve performance, security, and reliability of your Azure VMs
Running virtual machines in Azure is great. However, there are a lot of things you need to think...
Monitoring and Insights for Azure Arc enabled Servers
As many customers are moving to a hybrid cloud environment, where they run servers and applications not just in Microsoft Azure, but also...
10 reasons why the Surface Book is great for IT Pros
As I mentioned in my little Surface Book review a couple of days ago, I really like the Microsoft Surface Book and it is my daily driver...
Hyper-V over SMB: SMB Direct (RDMA)
Another important part of SMB 3.0 and Hyper-V over SMB is the performance. In the past you could...
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Virtual Disk VHD & VHDX recommendations
In the new released Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2012 you can find a lot of tuning information for Windows Server 2012...
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V – How to create a new VHD from a source VHD
Microsoft MVP Aidan Finn posted a interesting blog post about Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Block Fragmentation. He was reviewing the document...
Ordered HP EliteBook 8460w
Some days ago I compared the new HP EliteBook and ProBook series. Now I decided to buy the HP...
Hyper-V Hotfix for Intel Sandy Bridge and Westmere
If you are using Microsoft Hyper-V with new Intel Sandy Bridge or Intel Westmere processors and our server has over 48GB of physical RAM...
Tuning a Windows 7 VM
I run several Windows Virtual Machines (VMs) on my Mac with VMware Fusion. Even VMware Fusion has a great performance for Virtual Machines...
P2V Hyper-V Migration
Tonight I did a bigger P2V (physical two virtual) migration. I virtualized an older Windows Server...
